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There are subtle parts of how English works that confuse a lot of people, that diagramming might help with. The most obvious to me was the Harry Potter scene w
by Izkata 2y ago
There are subtle parts of how English works that confuse a lot of people, that diagramming might help with. The most obvious to me was the Harry Potter scene where, in the movie, Professor Snape says "and even put a stopper in death" [0]. The book version was just "even stopper death".
These mean opposite things. One uses "stopper" as a noun, saying to prevent death. The other is using it as a verb, saying to bottle up death - create a potion to cause death.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcnWqz8kafo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcnWqz8kafo
- Dylan16807 2y agoI don't know if there's an idiom getting in the way, but "put a stopper in" also sounds like bottling to me.